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Mat Pilates in Bristol

A supportive, full-body workout designed to enhance strength, mobility, and body awareness.

Calm the mind. Challenge the body.

Mat Pilates at Soul Pilates

Our Mat Pilates classes offer a supportive, full-body workout designed to enhance strength, mobility, and body awareness. Utilising bodyweight exercises and small props like foam rollers, resistance bands, and magic circles, these sessions provide a dynamic experience that keeps your body engaged and continuously learning.

Ideal for all levels, including beginners, our fundamentals and Evolve (Level 2) classes focus on improving alignment, core strength, balance, and coordination. 

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Small groups, big results

With small class sizes and attentive instruction, you’ll receive personalised guidance to ensure effective and safe practice.

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Mat Pilates classes in Bristol

Find space, strength and calm

Mat: Fundamentals (all levels)

A welcoming, foundational mat-based Pilates class – ideal for those new to Pilates, returning to movement, or wanting a reliable fundamentals base for their practice.

Using bodyweight and small props (foam rollers, bands, etc.), this class focuses on building core strength, joint stability, alignment and movement awareness.

With clear coaching and precise instruction, you’ll learn essential movement patterns and safe technique – helping you feel confident, stable and balanced whether sticking to mat or eventually advancing.

Challenge and deepen your practice

Mat: Evolve (level 2)

Once you’ve mastered the fundamentals, Mat Evolve is your next step.

This intermediate mat class offers more challenging full-body sequences, refined exercise progressions, increased muscular engagement, and deeper work on mobility, balance and stability.

Expect smoother transitions, more dynamic sequences, and exercises that demand greater control, coordination and body awareness.

Mat Evolve gives you the opportunity to deepen your strengths and prepare for transition to Reformer or equipment classes when ready.

From our Mat Pilates students

Delivered with confidence and knowledge

Love Eliza’s mat class – the level two is intense but she uses all props to make it fun and supportive do you don’t realise how hard you are working – it’s a perfect combination of traditional Pilates moves delivered with confidence and knowledge.

‘Mat’ came before reformer and it’s a great full body movement class which gives every bit of your body some attention and leaves you feeling well balanced and stretched.

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Isobel Mitchel
I can lead an active life with confidence

I do 2 classes a week at Soul Pilates. The teachers bring their own personal styles which keeps classes fresh but what is consistent in the Soul approach is the emphasis on finding your own ease of movement whilst offering safe challenges.

As a 64 year old woman I feel that I can lead an active life with confidence. A recent improvement I’ve noticed is that I seem to be hitting my golf shots further. I think I have more rotation and flexibility.

And the office staff are always helpful too.

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Katie McConochie
Welcoming, inclusive, calm and focused.

I’m loving my return to Reformer pilates. The studio is a great place to focus and the teachers are brilliant. I have osteoporosis and a hip replacement (and I’m old) and their attention to individuals in the group is fantastic.

I first posted this review two years ago and it is still just as true. I am stronger now than when I started and my posture is better than it has ever been.

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Rebecca Nelson
I feel stronger and more confident

Restarted Pilates as I am aware that, as a 40+ woman with a back injury that I need to manage, I need to keep working on my core strength.

I have now attended 200+ classes at Soul and haven’t had any issues with my back. I feel stronger, more confident in my back and really enjoy how varied the classes are, even with the same instructors.

It has also been great for my mental wellbeing, which has been an added bonus.

Would thoroughly recommend!

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Choose your package

Book a Mat Pilates class pass

If you are looking to join our Mat classes only, choose one of our mat passes below. If you would like to explore our Equipment and Reformer classes also, grab one of our Class Intro Offers.

1 Mat Class

1 mat class

£22
Mat Only Intro Pack

3 classes

£36
£12 per class
10 Mat Classes

10 mat classes

£198
£19.80 per class

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Our Mat Pilates teacher team

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Kelisha Foster-Russell

Reformer & Mat Teacher
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Eliza Moreland

Fully Comprehensive Teacher
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Kelly Dunstan

Fully Comprehensive Teacher

What is Mat Pilates

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Book Mat Pilates in Bristol

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